For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The Mclean County Museum of History's newest exhibit, “A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County," shares the ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

PQ ( a leading global producer of silicates, silicas and derivative products, announced that it has completed the acquisition ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Luckily, this won't happen until at least 1.6 billion years from now, suggests new research from University of Chicago geophysicist RJ Graham and colleagues. That potentially doubles the projected ...